Heather Tom is taking her skills behind-the-scenes for an upcoming episode of The Daring and the Stunning!
The 49-year-old actress is celebrating her thirty fifth anniversary on the daytime cleaning soap opera as Katie Logan Spencer, and she or he’s set to function a author and director on an upcoming all-female episode, Deadline reveals.
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“[Head writer and executive producer] Brad Bell really got here to me and mentioned, ‘that is your thirty fifth yr. You’ve been writing and directing. You’ve additionally been appearing the entire time, and I feel that it might be wonderful if you happen to did all three in a single present,’” Heather advised the outlet. “I used to be like, oh, that’ll be attention-grabbing! So logistically it was simply, properly, let’s determine how I may be on stage appearing within the scenes after which directing these scenes. I believed it was essential and agree that it ought to air throughout Ladies’s Historical past Month as a result of it’s historic.”
Set to air subsequent week on March twenty seventh, the episode will deal with mom and daughter relationships, with Rebecca Budig (Taylor), Annika Noelle (Hope), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke), Jennifer Gareis (Donna), Jacqueline MacInnes Wooden (Steffy) and, after all, Heather as Katie.
“The mom daughter relationships are so attention-grabbing to me and so formative,” Heather mentioned. “And now that is going to make me cry as a result of I misplaced my mom final yr. I needed to form of pay homage to her as a result of I actually wouldn’t be right here with out her actually and figuratively. So I bought a bit of little bit of her in there with Katie and Donna, who’re sisters who misplaced their mother.”
The episode has 45 pages of dialogue, all shot in simply sooner or later again in February, and it gained’t be a standalone episode!
“It does match throughout the story of the place they’re within the sequence,” the actress shared. “We thought of doing one thing that was extra of a standalone, however Brad felt, and I agreed that it wanted to only form of stream with the story and it made sense.”
The episode will even characteristic a feminine stage supervisor, a feminine assistant director and feminine editors.
Heather is not any stranger to writing and directing on The Daring and the Stunning, as she has served as a author on 11 episodes since 2024, and she or he has directed 38 episodes since 2016, thus far.
